The athletic twitasphere is a complex beast, but we like to think of it as tipping scale. On one end sits the best - a freak of nature that can chuck a ball 60 yards or break a backboard while still being able to compose a pithy and topical 140 or less.

Logan Morrison also represents the MLB on the best-tweeter list. Although considerably more brash than McCarthy and unafraid to troll, LoMo brings the funny in addition to some solid “inside baseball” looks.

Todd Coffey may not be a big name athlete, but he looms large in the hall of bad tweets. Just recently, his account went on a tirade about President Obama turning this country into “a socialism,” which he promptly deleted and then explained with the following.

The forward formerly known as Ron Artest has A LOT of personality. Unfortunately, most of that is lost on his Twitter feed, which is mostly just advertisements for strange products and non-sequiturs.

Typical Tweets

The Best-Worst

And sometimes, but only sometimes, you will stumble upon that rare athlete that is incredible on Twitter, but only because they are transcendently bad. They are simultaneously the best and the worst. That is when the scale is in balance.

There are a more than a few people who would love this slugger to clam up for good (possibly someone whose name rhymes with Schmason Schmiambi). However, Canseco relishes his outlet and will continue to drop his completely crazybones pearls until you pry the iPhone from his cold, dead fingers.